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The ghosts of India’s TikTok: What happens when a social media app is banned BBC.com Source link
Image caption, ByteDance says a report it plans to sell TikTok “are not true”Article information Author, João da Silva Role, Business reporter 26 April 2024, 03:49 BST Updated 1 hour ago TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance says it has no intention of selling the business after the US passed a law to force it to […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw the video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature. In India, the app was banned nearly four years ago. Here’s what happened . . […]
The TikTok ban looks increasingly like a matter of when, not if. The provision, which passed the House of Representatives over the weekend as part of a larger foreign aid bill, would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app’s U.S. operations within a year or be banned from the country. The bill […]
TikTok users could soon find that the popular social media service is either under new ownership or, although it wouldn’t happen immediately, outright banned in the U.S. On Saturday, the House passed legislation that would bar TikTok from operating in the U.S. if the popular platform’s China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year. The bill […]
Time may be running out for TikTok. In March, the House voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would force Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations. The bill then moved to the Senate . . .
For decades, the United States has fashioned itself the champion of an open internet, arguing that the web should be largely unregulated and that digital data should flow around the globe unhindered by borders. The government has argued against internet censorship abroad and even funded software that lets people in autocratic states get around online […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, April 05, 2024Scores of viral videos with millions of views on the social platform TikTok claim dark-skinned Russian icons show Jesus is black. | Screenshot/TikTok Scores of viral videos on the social platform
The purported threat of TikTok to U.S. national security has inflated into a hysteria of Chinese spy balloon proportions, but the official record tells a different story: U.S. intelligence has produced no evidence that the popular social media site has ever coordinated with Beijing. That fact hasn’t stopped many in Congress and even President Joe […]
Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Patrick Semansky—AP Images Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s going to put together an investor group to buy TikTok, a day after the House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban the popular video app in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake. TikTok, which has